Melbourne spring, a photo from Victoria, East

Photographer's Note

Most people in the northern hemisphere are preparing for a long and difficult winter, so here is a spring photo from Melbourne to cheer you up. Here in Melbourne we are coming out of a long lockdown. The state of Victoria has had no covid-19 cases for 28 days now, and has no active cases, so we are free of the virus, for now.

The photo was taken in Fitzroy Gardens, near the city centre. The tall red flowers are Gymea lilies. They grow naturally around Sydney, but have been planted in some public gardens in Melbourne. They grow to about 3 metres tall.

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ikeharel, pajaran, jemaflor, jhm, papagolf21, ChrisJ, adramad, clic, COSTANTINO, jean113, worldcitizen has marked this note useful

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ikeharel (113453) 2020-11-26 22:33

Hello Vincent,
Cheers for the Covid-free situation, now you may enjoy the beautiful spring time as we see this park in the city. A green lung that is so importent to urban life.
Saw the park on Google-map, took a virtual tour on the trails - a real charming "stroll". Location on its center is at -37.813, 144.98 on the map.
Have a nice friday,
Ike

ifege (48183) 2020-11-26 22:38

Hi Vince
A like your "for now" caution. Lets hope it stays away. Looks like this was taken while the lockdown was still on. We've got our first Melbourne visitors coming through soon. An excellent photo of the gardens with the city line background.
cheers
Ian

jemaflor (147248) 2020-11-26 23:11

Hi Vincent,
Lovely sunlight and colors for your well framed photo, perfect sharpness a well balanced composition, tfs.

Tue (92482) 2020-11-27 0:49

Hello Vincent,
A beautiful view of the city in a bright and clear sunlight. I really like the combination of the park and the many high-rise buildings in the background. A nice contrast also in terms of blue and green colours.
Lars

Silvio1953 (221751) 2020-11-27 2:04

Ciao Vincent, great imposing buildings, lovely composition with vegetation in FG, good clarity, splendid light, fine details and wonderful colors, very well done, my friend, have a good week end, ciao Silvio

lousat (139342) 2020-11-27 2:06

Salut Vincent,j'espere de voir un primtemps comme ca chez moi aussi le prochaine annee', sans Covid et avec des belles journees. Mais pour le moment on a encore le confinement, mon bar est toujours ferme' et on a 800 morts par jour,c'est terrible. Merci pour cette photo qui donne un peu d'espoir pour l'Europe aussi. Bon WE et merci,Luciano

dta (98848) 2020-11-27 2:58

Hello Vicent ,
Thanks to show us this beautiful spring pic . The high rises upon the splendid gree park provide a superb effect.
Regards

Royaldevon (85932) 2020-11-27 4:06

Hello Vincent,

You have certainly put your style on this photograph; it really shows the power of the photographer!
I know photographers who would just have concentrated on the buildings and given quite a different impression of the city! You have used the flowers to great effect, to soften the rigidity of the skyscrapers and create an impression of a garden orientated city.
Fine exposure and rich colours.

My warm regards,
Bev :-)

mkamionka (74577) 2020-11-27 8:17

Hi Vincent,
everything is upside down here in the north: not only instead of the spring we have autumn but also we have high number of covid cases, and ironically places which had no cases before suffer most. People who denied even existence of the virus have now no problem indication family members or friends who got sick.

This is a wonderful springtime photo. The colors are stunning, so lush green vegetation. It goes well with the blue sky as well and we have also some modern architecture in between. It looks like a very green city indeed.
Excellent capture,
M

jhm (211736) 2020-11-27 9:12

Hello Vincent,

You show us wonderful flower and plants panorama image with the sky scraper in background
You chose the plants excellent this gives a nice nature picture.
Lovely image and clear photographed.
Very well done, TFS.

Best regards,
John.

emka (158204) 2020-11-27 23:21

Hello Vincent, How happy you are without COVID. When will it happen in Europe? Nice to see the spring picture. Interesting flowers. On the right side, I see the Araucaria tree. Beautiful composition in nice colours.
regards to our TE friends from Melbourne when you see them :)
MAlgo

papagolf21 (152607) 2020-11-27 23:54

Bonjour, cher Vincent,
Une image bien pr駸ent馥 avec un cadrage parfait avec ce plan fleuri.
Une belle fa輟n de valoriser cette ville.
Amiti駸.
Philippe

ChrisJ (171888) 2020-11-28 19:30

Hello Vincent,

Congratulations to all Victorians who made the effort to comply with the heavy handed restrictions imposed on everyone down there. The end result was worth it. NOW the economy can take precedence once more. Hope you had a couple of donuts to celebrate. A lovely Spring scene from the gardens. That high-rise bg building with the many box rectangles / squares in the design is eye-catching. Tfs!

adramad (73006) 2020-11-29 12:27

Hi Vincent.
These tall buildings look ideal in this POV, where the protagonists are the beautiful plants of this garden, these yellow flowering pinnacles and the three tall poles with the red plume at the end are fantastic.
Very nice coloring, in some very attractive tones.
All the best and have a good start to the week.
Luis.

clic (76) 2020-11-30 11:38

Hello Vincent
From the closest green leaf up to the distant antennas atop the buildings, we don't loose a single pixel in the fuzziness and quite significant is the lovely verdant near field muffling the city commotion for a paradoxical spectacular view!
Hava g'day.

abmdsudi (95869) 2020-11-30 19:30

Hi Vincent
Wonderful right time, right place photo. Nature blessed you with a fine opportunity, great detail and gorgeous range of colours. Well done urban shot
Best regards

COSTANTINO (116604) 2020-11-30 23:11

Hello dear Vincent
an excellent photo of these gardens
dominating the photo....
how high are these
constructions?????
lovely sunlight and colors...
welldone
regards
costantino

jean113 (27895) 2020-12-03 11:41

Hello Vincent, a cheering picture, as it is cold and damp in the UK.
A good viewpoint with the skyscrapers making an alternative focal point from the beautiful flowers.
It looks even better in the large version.
Lovely colours.
Thanks for sharing, kind regards, Jean.

SteveH (8220) 2020-12-03 20:21

Hi Vince, nice shot of the the pretty Fitzroy gardens providing an attractive FG infront of the skyline. ARe you still in Melb, if so we might be able to arrange a photo walk with some of the other (ex) TEers that are here. Cheers, STeve

worldcitizen (16106) 2020-12-05 12:14

Hello Vincent,
This is a nice combination of nature and modern architecture. I like how the skyscrapers are peeking out above the greenery. Very nice colors and lighting, too. Take care!